They did it by being better than anyone else at metalworking. They had a strong and developed iron industry and they traded a lot with other nations so they could amass large amounts of wealth. They also made textile out of cotton and had large amounts of gold, so it was easy for them to become dominant.
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Connecting the past to the present helps you to know how people have made decisions about certain similar issues in the past, which can give you insight into how to solve the problem you're currently facing.
Mercantilism created competition between companies, states, and countries. My teacher once gave me the example of a tree cutter making tables. It was about who makes the most profit.
<span>C. He wanted to create a place where he could practice his religion freely.
William Penn was a devout Quaker. The Quakers (as they were commonly called) were officially The Religious Society of Friends, and they believed the Spirit of God spoke to them directly through their "inner light." The Quakers had suffered a fair amount of persecution in England as a nontraditional sect. William Penn was quoted as saying, in regard to founding a religious commonwealth of Quakers in America, that "t</span><span>here may be room there, though not here [in England], for such a holy experiment.”</span>
